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Two drivers received minor injuries after running into moose on the Outer Ring Road outside St. John's Friday morning. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a pickup truck hit two moose. Then a sport utility vehicle that had been following the truck hit one of the animals. The accident happened in the eastbound lanes between Topsail Road and Thorburn Road. Meanwhile, the RNC also said a vehicle hit a moose on the Southern Shore highway, south of St. John's, on Thursday evening. The driver sustained minor injuries.

Woman Hits Moose With Car After Sister Hits Moose With Car The moose of Canada are stalking and haunting Connie Evirett and Yvonne Studley, two car-driving sisters from British Columbia. Last month Studley, 49, had a car accident involving one of the beasts; the melee left her in a coma, and the moose in a moose coffin. Then, while on the way to the hospital to visit her younger sister, 51-year-old Evirett had a moose/car accident of her own. Everitt told a reporter: "My first thought was, 'Are the moose going out [on a] hunting season for my family?'" Seems...

Erskine, MN (WDAY-TV) -- An Erskine, Minnesota man's car is totaled after he collided with a moose on Highway 59 Wednesday night. An Erskine, Minnesota man's car is totaled after he collided with a moose on Highway 59 Wednesday night. The Minnnesota State Patrol says 27-year-old Conrad Strand was about 6 miles south of Erskine, when he hit a cow moose. Strand's 2002 Grand Marquis is totaled. The moose died at the scene. Strand was wearing his seatbelt and did not need any medical attention at the hospital.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials euthanized a 60-pound female black bear Thursday afternoon that attacked a hiker and ended up becoming an Internet cause celebre. Wildlife biologists determined the young bear that park rangers captured May 13 bit the foot of an unidentified man who got too close with a camera as he was hiking along the popular Laurel Falls Trail the day before. Park spokeswoman Nancy Gray said park policy dictates that all animals who attack humans must be euthanized. The bear was put down "in a humane manner," according to a National Park Service news release Thursday.

A Northfield middle school teacher admitted in court Wednesday that she bit off a chunk of a stranger's ear while in a St. Paul cafe last month, severing a piece of flesh that police presume she swallowed. Susan M. Mwarabu, 30, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in Ramsey County District Court to third-degree felony assault. She remains free pending sentencing May 20.

Last Updated: Saturday, 27 January 2007, 02:15 GMT Student felled by moose head sues An American student is suing her university for negligence after a mounted moose head fell on her from a wall during a biology exam. Amy Walters was peering through a microscope when the stuffed trophy fell, hitting the side of her head. She says she has suffered from headaches ever since, and is suing for "loss of enjoyment of life" and "embarrassment and humiliation". Pennsylvania State University has not yet commented on the case. The accident happened at the university's biology laboratory at the Fayette campus...

(WCCO) Minnetonka, Minn. A moose was spotted in Minnetonka, Minn. Thursday morning and officials believe it may be same animal that was seen roaming the Chanhassen, Minn. area on Monday. The moose briefly made its way onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 494 near Highway 62 around 9 a.m. Police were able to get the animal off the freeway, but had to put it down a couple of hours later. Officials did not think they would be able to transport the animal back to its habitat.

LOVELAND — A moose that has wandered around Loveland and other nearby towns appears headed back to the mountains, and Division of Wildlife officers urged residents to enjoy watching the animal from a safe distance. The division has no plans to tranquilize and relocate the young adult female as long as she behaves herself, said Tyler Baskfield, public information officer. Tranquilizing and relocating such a large animal in the summer heat could harm the moose, Baskfield said. She seems to be working her way along irrigation ditches toward the Big Thompson River. Young moose away from their mothers for the...

Neanderthals were not stupid, just a bit anti-social IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT "CRUDE, boorish and slow- witted" - even dictionaries give Neanderthals a hard time. But our prehistoric cousins were in reality just as smart as we are and did not die out as a result of a lack of brain power, according to a new archaeological study. Until now, the leading theory of why the Neanderthals disappeared has been that a lack of intelligence meant they were less efficient hunters. But a team of US archaeologists believe they met their evolutionary end because of a failure to maintain social...

AR RAMADI, Iraq (Dec. 14, 2005) -- For many of the Marines and sailors deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, it’s the little things that make the deployment bearable. Having a nice bed to sleep in at night, hot food for dinner and getting mail every couple of days can make all the difference for the troops. However, sometimes the difference is a magazine, a bag of potato chip or an alarm clock – and that’s where the Marine Corps Exchange comes in. Filled with sweatshirts, toiletries, snacks and other goodies, the exchange is a place where the Marines...

Swedish family is being plagued by a fairly common Norwegian problem, the drunken moose. Laila von Scheele no longer dares let her children out of the house, for fear of an unfortunate encounter with the plastered visitor that frequents their garden. "I am terrified. It can be dangerous when it's drunk," von Scheele told Swedish newspaper Expressen. The last five nights in a row the same moose has entered their property in Ekerö, west of Stockholm. It helps itself to the fallen fruit from the family's ten apple trees. As frequently is the case in Norway, the decomposing fruit have...

Origin of new British Museum exhibit looks a bit wobbly By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent (Filed: 19/05/2005) Visitors to the British Museum unfamiliar with the date of the wheel's invention may have been puzzled by a primitive painting in the Roman Britain gallery this week, showing a caveman pushing a supermarket trolley. The earliest recorded wheels, as every schoolboy knows, are from Mesopotamia around 5,500 years ago. Trolleys were first used in the Piggly-Wiggly Supermarket chain [really], Oklahoma City, in 1937. The bizarre exhibit, stuck to a wall with double-sided tape and labelled "Early Man Goes to Market" was, of...

YAMHILL, Ore.--There is a story behind every electronic gadget sold on the QVC shopping channel. This one leads to a ramshackle farmhouse in rural Oregon, which is the home and circuit design lab of Jeri Ellsworth, a 30-year-old high school dropout and self-taught computer chip designer. Ellsworth has squeezed the entire circuitry of a two-decade-old Commodore 64 home computer onto a single chip, which she has tucked neatly into a joystick that connects by a cable to a TV set. Called the Commodore 64--the same as the computer system--her device can run 30 video games, mostly sports, racing and puzzles...

Moises Alou says he urinates on his hands to alleviate calluses. So does Jorge Posada. "In spring training only," Posada told the Newark Star-Ledger. "You don't want to shake my hand in spring training before the game. After the game, it's OK." Ummm, on second thought, maybe just a friendly nod will do then, too, Jorge. Is there anything more disgusting in sports than an athlete urinating on his own hands? Yes. And not all of them involve Schottzie or David Wells. 10. Reporters eating in the press room. Remember John Belushi going through the Faber College cafeteria in "Animal...